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NSA surveillance revealed abandoned al-Qaedas NY stock exchange bombing plot
The US-led surveillance programme which has created a lot of furor for snooping on citizens' web activities and phone records has revealed information about al-Qaeda's plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange(NYSE) in 2008. FBI Assistant Director Sean Joyce said that the agency found out through the electronic surveillance that al-Qaeda was actually in the initial stage of bombing the NYSE ...
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NYPD Suspect dead in police shooting
NYC crime rates An NYPD officer shot and killed a robbery suspect as the two exchanged gunfire early Wednesday in Brooklyn, police said.Officers in the 75th Precinct were on patrol at about 1:08 a.m. when a cabdriver alerted them to a gunpoint robbery in progress in the 300 block of Hinsdale Street, police said.The officers heard gunshots and after exiting their vehicle saw two men struggling ...
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LIRR Restores Full Rush Hour Service After Derailment Repairs Completed
The derailment prompted the railroad to cancel or divert several trains during the morning and evening rush hours Tuesday. However, the railroad restored full rush hour service by Wednesday morning and trains were running on or close to schedule. Numerous other incidents have impacted MTA riders in recent weeks. In late ...
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Sweeny Past Present And Future — Donnie Baseball Talks Yankees And Baseball
More Columns Don Mattingly's return to Yankee Stadium as manager of the Dodgers is unprecedented. Never has a player as iconic as Mattingly returned to New York in a visiting uniform. With all due respect to Tino Martinez, Hideki Matsui and others, they are not close to what Mattingly meant to Yankees fans in his prime. He spent his entire 14-year playing career in pinstripes and his No. ...
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Several People Hurt After Car Jumps Curb In East Village
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – At least eight people have been injured, three of them seriously, after a car jumped the curb in the East Village, officials said. The incident happened Wednesday morning at Second Avenue and East Fourth ...
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Romeo + Juliet [DVD]
Baz Luhrmann's updated version of William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet starts in high gear, pushes itself into overdrive, and eventually redlines and blows the engine long before its over. It's not that updating the Bard is a bad idea--it's been done successfully so many times before that it is literally de rigueur in the world of both theater and film, despite Luhrmann's claims tha ... ...
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NYPD Robbery Suspect Killed In Police-Involved Shooting In East New York
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A robbery suspect was shot and killed by police in East New York early Wednesday morning. A livery cab driver flagged down two police officers on routine patrol in the area and alerted them to a gunpoint robbery in progress in front of 367 Hinsdale Street shortly after 1 a.m., police said. The officers heard gunshots and when they got to the scene they sawa ...
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One Tank Trips Duke Farms In Hillsborough N.J.
HILLSBOROUGH, N.J. (CBSNewYork) - If you think New Jersey is all about factories, beaches, and where the Jets and Giants play, then you need to take ...
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World in Pictures June 19 2013 The Wanted in London and Madonna in New York
TODAY'S World in Pictures features photographs of Nathan Sykes, Tom Parker, Jay McGuiness, Max George and Siva Kaneswaran at the premiere of their reality E! TV series Wanted Life in London and Madonna at the world premiere of 'Madonna: The MDNA Tour' at the Paris Theatre in New ...
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LIRR Wednesday morning rush looking good
Commuters react to disruptions as several trains were still canceled or diverted a day after Monday's LIRR derailment. Crews were working to repair damage caused Monday evening when two cars from a Hempstead-bound LIRR train derailed in an East River Access tunnel. Videojournalist: Chris Ware (June 18, 2013) (June 18, 2013 10:43 ...
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Palladino Wheeler Can’t Be Mets’ Savior — Because Harvey Already Is
More Ernie Palladino Columns Zack Wheeler said before Tuesday that the New York media should never regard him as a savior. No problem. Given their performance in that day's opener of the futuristic day-night doubleheader in Atlanta, the nightcap of which served as Wheeler's major league curtain-raiser, the Mets have him already. His name is Matt Harvey, and all Wheeler has to do for ...